SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

THE HARTFORD COURANT

One of the largest gaps between racial and ethnic groups on the 2000 Connecticut Mastery Test scores released Wednesday was in eighth-grade math, where 73 percent of Asians met the state goal, compared with 65 percent of whites, 21 percent of Hispanics and 19 percent of blacks. A story about the test disparities on Page 1 Thursday incorrectly said those scores were in eighth-grade reading.